C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Judge
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.
A corrupt judge is not qualified to inquire into the truth.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.